Hereforpron2

joined 1 year ago
[–] Hereforpron2@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 6 months ago

Dang, really thought that'd work...

[–] Hereforpron2@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 8 months ago

Doesn't seem like this one was deliberate based on the charges, but it was on private land which is interesting. Starting a forest fire on accident is still stupid as fuck, but at least it isn't straight up evil like doing it on purpose. He still deserves the book, though.

[–] Hereforpron2@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 8 months ago

Max sentence is only 6 months in jail, which doesn't seem like a lot for the amount of damage caused and the importance of keeping others from doing the same in the future.

[–] Hereforpron2@lemmynsfw.com 21 points 8 months ago

Lol they said "threatening violence" because it was the easiest thing to ban you with. The real reason you got banned is that you're a psycho, man. You sound like you are saying you wish you were allowed to hurt or kill your own children, and you're talking about them as property. That's crazy person shit.

[–] Hereforpron2@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 8 months ago

Like almost any concept, the argument over free will really becomes semantic (and pedantic) when pushed to academic extremes. At a certain point it shifts to "is there a difference between free will and the apparent ability to choose what we do in any given moment?"

This scientist claims that the inability to tease any choice from the infinite variables that affect that decision means that the decision isn't ours. It is an equally valid conclusion that you don't need to know every single thing that influences you in order to have agency among those influences.

Moore's take on the Cartesian question of "how do we know we exist?" is similar. It points out that the debate actually has nothing to do with existence, but what it means to "know" something, and that "knowing," like anything, can of course be made impossible with philosophical and academic contortions (e.g., arguments like "but what if this is a simulation and there is a "great deception" that only convinces you that you exist?"). It is not that some form of knowing cannot exist, it is that people are capable of imagining fantasies in which knowing cannot exist, and Moore denies that we should let the ability to conceptualize something beyond the intended context of our language (i.e., perceived reality) pervert our ability to see and accept something concrete.

Is Moore right? Who knows, but he gets at the point that the answers to questions of free will, existence, ontology, etc. have more to do with how the questions are framed academically and philosophically than with how the same concepts actually operate in real life. It will always be possibly to frame a question (or to define the words within a question) in a way that denies the possibility of knowing or agency. But the ability to do so doesn't mean that other methods of asking or knowing are impossible.

[–] Hereforpron2@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 9 months ago

You're a true champ. Thanks so much for the amazing app!

[–] Hereforpron2@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 9 months ago

Haha and here I was figuring no one else noticed/minded

[–] Hereforpron2@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 9 months ago

I don't want to open links in my browser, I just want the app's browser to work a little more similarly to a standard one. Though I may end up doing that if it turns out to be impossible to fix

 

This has been going on since I joined months ago, so I don't think it's a recent update thing.

Anyway, if I click on a post of a news article or something, and then within that article click to a second (and third or fourth etc.) page for more information, when I then click the "back" button on my Android, it returns me all the way back to the app rather than to my previous page online. I'd love if it worked like in a standard browser and just brought me back one page rather than closing the browser window.

[–] Hereforpron2@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 9 months ago

Ireland must have really upped their Air and Space Forces

[–] Hereforpron2@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 10 months ago

Just wish I could remember the spoiler formatting haha

[–] Hereforpron2@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Square root of -1 is called i because it's an imaginary number butl gets used often

[–] Hereforpron2@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Square root of -1 is called i because it's an imaginary number

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